This is a VERY well known problem with the bad nvidia drivers. There's a million forum threads here about it. Everyone has different problems with the 8000 series cards - all to do with bad performance. Wheather it be choppy scrolling, laggy resizing of windows or just unusuable KDE4, it's nvidia's fault. Not yours.

They said this is going to be fixed in a future release, so sit tight.

That master thread is interesting. I am wondering if there any reports of issues in Chrome that are similar to the ones FF is producing? The reason I ask is simply to investigate what kind of changes in programming can be implemented to workaround faulty drivers/cards. The first thing I am going to do in testing is set up a solid vCloud Datacenter so that I keep all my important information in the cloud and try to operate from an external viewpoint. It makes tasks like these a lot less risky.

Also, I really wanted to point out the crazy effects I have seen video cards have on audio conversions. For example, I was using a popular YouTube to MP3 converter and because the video card was unable to process the video, the audio conversion was compromised. I can imagine that being really frustrating if you are a basic user.